Modeling empathic behaviors in social robots seems to be relevant to improve the overall human-robot interaction for the user. This paper proposes a technology that accommodates the differences between the human users, equipping humanoid robots with “personality”–as a pattern of affective behavioural traits that distinguish human partners from one another.

It is well understood that large percentage of software development costs are incurred during the earlier phases of the software development process, namely the information requirement analysis. Given the importance of information requirements analysis during software development process, it is surprising that there is limited research in this area to advance the knowledge for better equipping ...

We extend our previous duality theorem for Markov processes by equipping the processes with a pseudometric and the algebras with a notion of metric diameter. We are able to show that the isomorphisms of our previous duality theorem become isometries in this quantitative setting. This opens the way to developing theories of approximate reasoning for probabilistic systems.

We develop a novel preconditioning method for ridge regression, based on recent linear sketching methods. By equipping Stochastic Variance Reduced Gradient (SVRG) with this preconditioning process, we obtain a significant speed-up relative to fast stochastic methods such as SVRG, SDCA and SAG.

DNA origami nanopore with large size of a 10 nm square, equipping tunable lid, enables size-selective molecular transportation through the lipid membrane giant vesicle.